Remote Care Management - CMA

Gateway Electronic Medical Management Systems, Inc.; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 8,900 - 37,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Remote work

Job summary

Esrun Health is seeking a Remote Care Coordinator to perform telephonic encounters with patients on behalf of our practice partners. This is a 1099 contractor position with flexible, set-your-own-hours and a part-time schedule, typically 20–30 hours per week, from home.

You will manage a patient panel, complete due diligence on all assigned patients and billable encounters, and help improve chronic disease management through proactive care.

Qualifications

• Compliance with HIPAA privacy laws.
• Ability to work independently as a contractor.
• Strong telephonic communication and patient-facing skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform telephonic encounters with patients for our practice partners.
• Manage a patient panel and maintain a minimum of 100 patients per calendar month within the first three months.
• Complete due diligence measures on all assigned patients and billable encounters.
• Contribute to improved revenue through care management and proactive patient engagement.

Job description

Remote Care Coordinator

Location: Remote

Join our mission to help transform healthcare delivery from reactive, episodic care to proactively managed patient care that prevents live-changing problems before they happen for patients with two or more chronic conditions. We believe every patient with chronic disease deserves consistent check-ins, follow-up, and support.

The position of the Remote Care Coordinator will perform telephonic encounters with patients on behalf of our practice partners each month. This is a 1099 Contractor position and Contractor will be responsible for their own taxes.

Esrun Health is seeking Medical Assistants to work part-time from their home office as independent contractors while complying with HIPAA privacy laws. You will set your own hours and will not be held to a daily work hour schedule. Esrun Health wants its team members to have the flexibility to balance their work-life with their home life. Part-time team members will typically need to dedicate an average of 20-30 hours per week to care for their assigned patients initially. This time commitment will increase as the patient assignment increases. This unique business model allows you to choose what days and what hours of the day you dedicate to care for your patients.

The Care Coordinator will be assigned a patient panel based on skill and efficiency level and is expected to carry a patient panel of a minimum of 100 patients per calendar month within the first three months of assignment. Care Coordinators will be expected to complete due diligence measures on 100% of assigned patients and billable encounters on 90 percent of the patients they are assigned each month unless patients are unable to participate due to current health conditions.

Compensation Structure

Esrun Health utilizes a productivity-based pay structure:

$ 8.00 per completed patient encounter up to 99 encounters/month.

$ 8.50 100-149 encounters/month

$ 9.00 150-199 encounters/month,

$10.00 200-249 encounters/month

$11.00 >250 encounters/month.

Payment tier increases require 3 months consistency to achieve.

There is a $1/encounter incentive compensation for bilingual contractors equal to $3/hr but is only applied if hired into a bilingual position.

• Monthly outreach will consist of cumulative time to include chart review, contact attempts (calls/texts/emails), actual call time, care coordination, and documentation/billing.
• This time is billed out in 20-minute units of service referred to as "encounters" and each patient can be billed for up to three units of service or "encounters" each month.
• 20-39m=1 encounter, 40-59m=2 encounters, >60m=3 encounters

EXAMPLE:

Chart Review: 8 min

Outreach Attempts: 6 min

Actual Call: 11 min

Care Coordination: 9 min

Total Time Spent: 44 min = 2 encounters

• As a productivity-based position - there is no compensation outside of the billable encounters described in the compensation structure other than goal bonuses, referral bonuses, and employee engagement activities resulting in monetary prizes.
• There is no pay for onboarding. Onboarding is self-led and can be completed in as little as 3 days (3-6hrs total time) - but can, depending on individual schedule, take up to 14 days.

What your impact will be:

• The role of the Care Coordinator is to abide by the plan of care and orders of the practice.
• Ability to provide prevention and intervention for multiple disease conditions through motivational coaching.
• Develops a positive interaction with patients on behalf of our practices.
• Improve revenue by creating billable Care Management episodes, increasing visits for management of chronic conditions.
• Understand health care goals associated with chronic disease management provided by the practice.
• Attend regularly